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George Rodriguez never set out to become a photographer. Photography came to him.
It was 1954. He was at Fremont High School in South Los Angeles, and he needed an elective to meet graduation requirements.
“A friend said, ‘Take photography, it’s easy,’”...

As sulfurous tendrils of smoke and ash swirled in the air above Cahuenga Boulevard, the studio started filling with a swap meet's worth of televisions and stereos. The looting had begun, swiftly fanning out from the intersection of Florence and...

"Hey, Coachella, it's time for another special guest."
That was Guy Lawrence, half of the British dance duo Disclosure, on the main stage Saturday night at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Specifically, Lawrence was referring to singer...

Despite being one of the most recognizable figures in music, the hip-hop pioneer and multifaceted entertainer Ice Cube didn't raise as much as an eyebrow among fellow customers when he settled into a booth at a bustling Jerry's Famous Deli near his San...

The Pixies in 2004. Rage Against the Machine in 2007. Outkast in 2014.
Reunions are an established tradition at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, one that draws fans to this annual event as reliably as the dramatic landscape surrounding...

N.W.A. triumphantly entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Friday, with the groundbreaking quintet that brought the rough streets of Los Angeles into homes through their music defiantly refuting those who suggested rappers didn't belong in the...

Though we both hail from New England — almost as geographically far as you can get from Compton and still call yourself an American — when the opportunity to write "Straight Outta Compton" came our way, we recognized immediately that the music as well...

A funny thing happens when you watch "Straight Outta Compton," the biopic charting the rise and fall of trailblazing rap group N.W.A. The story focuses on three of the group's members — Dr. Dre, Eazy-E and Ice Cube — and one of the first things you notice...

On a film set in Leimert Park, an actor playing rap mogul Suge Knight angrily peeled out of a parking lot in a Jeep. The film, "Straight Outta Compton," tells the origin story of N.W.A and its famed members, including Ice Cube and Dr. Dre.
The...